A/N- yo, Sorayah here and this is my chapter! Hope you enjoy! :)
CHAPTER 1: Farewells And Greetings
"You cannot leave Chronos." The elder wheezed at a petite girl with breast length hair the color of the night sky and silver-grey eyes stood in the middle of a dark circular room facing what seemed to be a giant TV. The elder studied the girl before him. She was clad in a white tank top, covered by a black jacket, she also sported a black miniskirt and thigh high boots, in which he knew a miniature sword's sheath was hidden. He could just see the tattoo XIII embellished on her neck.
"What are you gonna do about it, you old geezer? You can't fight me!" The girl retorted.
"No Celeste, I cannot fight you, but twelve others can. I don't believe, even with your extraordinary talent, you could kill twelve Chronos Numbers without backup."
"Yes, but I do believe I could injure them and get away fast." The Elder began to laugh. Why is he laughing? Oh no is some kind of bomb just gonna drop on my head or something? The Numbers began to appear one by one: twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, and coming straight towards Celeste, Saphiria, number I. The Elder remained laughing in the background... maybe he was expecting a good fight.
"Hello number XIII, I heard you were resigning." Her voice rang through Celeste, cold, but with a hint of amusement. "We brought you into Chronos as a replacement, for the former number XIII. Chronos suffered a loss after h he left and was grateful when you came, the little sliver of light. The Bright Star."
"So?"
"Celeste, do you know why you were brought into Chronos?"
"Yeah, because of my dad."
"We looked at you because of your dad, we selected you because of your skill."
"Yeah?"
"Celeste, you are unlike any Number Chronos has ever seen."
"And?"
"You are almost always happy. You killed without a second glance. You always smiled. Why are you leaving?"
"I can't kill anymore. I may be trained in martial arts, I may be lethal, but I don't want to be anymore. People I've killed have families. One person gone brings so much pain and despair. I don't want to bring so much unhappiness to the world. I like to be happy, and it's hard to be happy when everyone else is sad."
"Fine, I understand. You may leave. but never cross Chronos, if you do there will be dire consequences."
"I understand, you won't hear from me again."
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"Congratulation's, ma'am. Here's your license."
"Thank you sir, and have a nice day." Celeste said cheerfully. She held her shiny new sweeper's license in her hand, now, all she had to do was find Train. Maybe I'll just find a big job, he's bound to be on the biggest, she thought. Celeste flounced up to the notice board and looked for the person with the highest ransom. `
"Shiki seems to have the highest. It say's that he was last in a town a couple mile's from here. Train's probably out there, I'll go check the place out. Hey! Maybe I'll take Shiki down by myself."
XxX Meanwhile- in a town a few mile's away...
"Are you sure that guy was a reliable source, Sven?" Train asked while walking a random street in the city they hoped Shiki was hiding out.
"Yes, Train. I've already told you. This is an inside source. I guarantee, this is the last city Shiki was spotted in." Sven was getting annoyed now, and he was running low on cigarette's. He could snap at any second now, Train better watch his step.
"Hey, Sven, where's princess?"
"At the library, I'm picking her up in half an hour. We have a meeting."
"A meeting? With who?"
"Rinslet. She say's she has a message for you."
"Cool, maybe she wants to ask me out!"
"Get a grip on reality, and hurry up, we got to be in the cafe in ten minute's."
"Okay! Let's go then!"
"NO TRAIN, WAIT!" Train had started running down the street at top speed, and if you didn't know, that's pretty fast.
When Sven finally reached the cafe, T4rain and Rinslet already had their coffee. "Is that-" Sven started when he saw the drink in Train's hand.
"Decaf." Rins stated, which comforted Sven greatly.
"So would you like to tell us why we're here now, Rins?"
"Yeah, okay, so there's two reason's why. One: Just making sure you're here on Shiki's tail."
"We are." Train stated, sipping his coffee.
"Okay, good. Do you know what he's doing?"
"Yeah, he's trying to restart the apostales." Train said simply.
"Yes, we need to stop him before he's in cahoots with more Taoists." Sven told her.
"Heh heh, cahoots. That's a funny word." Train laughed.
"Train, would you just grow up?" Rinslet snapped.
"I'm twenty-three. For your information." Train retorted.
"So, Rins, you said you had a message for Train?" Sven said, trying to change the subject.
"Oh, yeah, Jenos told me the newest Number XIII left Chronos."
"Wow, there was a new XIII? And he left to? Ha, must be cursed."
"Not 'he' Train. 'She'. Her name's Celeste, I think I may have a picture somewhere." Rinslet noted, digging through her purse.
"Wow, there aren't many girl's in Chronos."
"What's that supposed to mean, Train?" She growled, still rummaging through her bag. "Ah, found it!" She pulled out a photo of Celeste, flashing it in front of their face's. "Jenos said she might come looking for you. So be on the look out."
"Hey, she's kinda hot."
"In your dream's, Train, she's way to young for you." Sven stated smugly.
"Yeah, you couldn't get a girl like that if you tried." Rins agreed.
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Celeste hoped off the train, she had just arrived at her destination, the last town Shiki was spotted in. Now, just to find Train, it shouldn't take too long, just over a million people to look through. But she was getting hungry decided to stop by a the cafe for a light snack.
XxX A few minute's later...
Plate's were stacked all around Celeste, so that you couldn't even see her face. But between two stack's of plate's, she could see the back of two guys' head's. One was brown and looked like it hadn't been brushed for a while, and the other was a little too brushed, and was graying. Glancing past them, she saw a girl who needed to find a dictionary and look up the word 'modest'. She shrugged off the sight of her, continuing to devour her pancake's.
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Rinslet looked over Train's shoulder to see a stack of plate's worthy to be Train's.
"Wow, Train. I think your twin's eating over there!"
"Really? I gotta go meet this guy!" Train walked over to the person behind the mountain dishes, and before he even glanced at them, he began, "Hey, man, your apetite's almost as big as mine!"
"I'll take that as a compliment." A female voice replied.
"Dude, you're a chick?" Train stared in disbelief.
Celeste stared down at her half eaten pancake, "Does that surprise you?"
"Yeah, kinda." He glanced down at the girl, and the first thing he noticed was the number XIII embellished on her neck. "GUYS! I FOUND HER!" Train shouted loud enough to cause everyone's head to turn.
"You found who-" she paused, gasping, "YOU'RE TRAIN HEARTNET! O-M-G! I'VE BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR YOU!"
"Cool, wanna hang out with us? We just rented a hotel."
"Yeah, I just got my sweeper's license!"
"Awesome." They knuckle-touched.
"What was your name again?"
She beamed. "I'm Celeste Orion, you can call me Star."
